On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:43:20AM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 28.10.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Duncan Roe: > >As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to > >*reinstall* > >everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted > >I > >don't know what. > > One way to do that (if you really want to re-install instead of running > cygcheck and just re-install those packages listed as incomplete) is to edit > /etc/setup/installed.db so that each package version listed there is > "outdated". The next time you run setup it will upgrade everything, which > is thre re-install you want. > > sed -re 's/( [a-zA-Z].*-.*-)[0-9]+\./\10./' \ > -i.bak /etc/setup/installed.db > > -- > Achim. > > (on the road :-) > Thanks Audrey & Achim,
I already did the re-install and it just worked(!). Didn't take especially long either - guess I don't have a huge amount of stuff installed, compared with some folks. Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
